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J. H. FISHER. REGULATOR FOR WINDMILLS. No. 512,649;

ATTEsT O 7 v INVENTIOR by his afiorney JOSEPHHFIVSHEFL Patented Jan. 9, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH H. FISHER, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

REGULATOR FOR WINDMILLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 512,649, dated January 9, 1894'.

Application filed March 1, 1893. Serial No. 464,187. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JosEPH H. FISHER, of Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Regulators for Windmill- Fumps, of'which the following is a specificaion.

This invention is designed to coact with a windmill, a pump operated by the windmill,

a tank supplied with water from the pump and a float in the tank, the operation being such that when the tank becomes filled with water the windmill will be thrown out of action or out of connection with the pump.

The invention is embodied in the details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure lis an elevation of the regulator. Fig. 2 is a plan of an end of the detent, and Fig. 3 is a side view of the lower end of the ratchet bar.

The plate 1 forms a support for the differ; ent elements of the device, and it is adapted to be secured in a vertical position to a part ofthe frame of the windmill, or to a post or other permanent support under the same. When so secured the ratchet bar 6 is connected through head 6 with the gearing of the-windmill, the bar 9 is connected at its swinging end with the pump rod, and bar 11 is connected with the float in the tank. The plate 1 has bearings 2 and 3 for the ratchet bar, and bearings 4: and 5 for the detent 14. The pump-rod bar 9 is pivoted at 10 on plate 1 and it is provided with pawl 7 which pivots at 8 and is adapted to engage the teeth of the ratchet bar. Bar 11 is pivoted at 12 on plate 1. It extends through a recess in detent 14, such recess being indicated at 17 in Fig. 2, and it is suitably weighted at its swinging end. Rod, or bar, 13 connects bar 11 with pawl 7. The detent 14 is held yieldingly in contact with the ratchet bar by means of spring 15 which bears at one end against the detent and at the other against pin 16 on the plate. The spring fits in a slot in the detent,

as indicated in the drawings, and is held therein in any desirable manner.

The float is connected with bar 11 in such manner that when the tank is nearly filled with water the bar will be permitted to swing into the position shown in the drawings, so carrying pawl 7 into contact with the ratchet bar and permitting the detent to assume an operative position. When this is done, bar 9, which is continually oscillated by the pump rod, will act through pawl 7 on the ratchet bar and will, with the assistance of the detent, draw the ratchet bar intermittently downward audth row the windmill outof gear.

'VVhen the water in the tank becomes lowered I to any predetermined extent the float will draw the lower end of barll away from the ratchet bar, moving the pawl and the detent from contact therewith, and the ratchet bar will rise and permit the windmill to again act on the pump.

The pawl is held in contact with the ratchet bar by the weighted bar 11, and the detent is adapted to be actuated by a pump rod, a pawl,

as 7, suspended from an end of the pumpactuated bar in operative contact with the ratchet bar, a spring actuated detent, as 14,a pendulons bar, as 11, playing in a recess in the detent, anda rod, as 13, connecting bar I 

